Convert your photos to 3D for free

There are a few programs which are able to convert 2D photos to 3D photos (anaglyph). Some of them work automatically but better results you can get by hand assisted work. Two quite good programs are available for free.

If you really want to convert your 2D photos to 3D then we recommend you to choose very cheap 3DJournalDX software which allows to do it easilly: Easily convert your photos to 3D

At the beginning we have tested two programs for you - Auto3D a Lasso 3D by Robert Spoons. First of them converts photos to 3D (anaglyph) automatically, the second one gives you the opportunity to convert them by hand - and to get quite good results.
Both programs are free and you can find them on this page . (This link you can find in this list of links for subscribers - and it is the place where we update the link when changed). You can download them as zip files - then you have to unzip them (for example using pkunzip software) and start installation.

Working with Auto3D The simplest way to convert a 2D image to a 3D one is this: Just use File/Open for opening your image and then choose menu item Anaglyph. If you are not satisfied with the result, you may start experiments. You can use Cues, blur the image by Blur choice and change the depth of the image by WarpDepth.
To say the truth: From our point of view it is a try/check method, but we believe that if you convert dozens images you can find some rules - and then you will know which settings are good for which kind of images.
The results are usually quite good. For some images they are great, for some it is better to convert them by hand.

And now: Lasso 3D
Results of Lasso 3D depend much more on your hand work. Start again using File/Open for opening your image. Then look at switches Select, Adjust, Add/Adjust under menu and check the Select choice. Now use your mouse to select a part of your image which you want to pop from the image. For example a person which should be in front of the scene. If you need to make any changes in the selection you may check the Adjust choice or even Add/Adjust if you want to add points as well. When finished choose how much should the selected part of the image go to the front (depth (Shift) and click to Step1-Make. Using Step2-Composit you can accept all your previous actions, Show item will show you your anaglyph. If you are satisfied you may go further. Select another part of the image which should be in front of other parts and use the procedure described above. We recommend to start your whole work with objects which are nearest to you and then continue with other ones.
When are all parts of the image on their places you may use File/Save Anaglyph for saving your image.

If you want to pay money...
Quite a lot of functions for hand conversions to anaglyph offers Gugle 3D software. You may find it on this page . (This link you can find in this list of links for subscribers - and it is the place where we update the link when changed).
You may try it for free. The price of this product is quite high - if you want to continue using it you have to pay a licence starting at 299 euros.
We recommend you 3DJournalDX Software, which is cheap and allows you to convert 2D to 3D easilly and effectively.